Nguyen Tan Dung

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Eritrea and North Korea are the first and second most censored countries worldwide, according to a list compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists of the 10 countries where the press is most restricted. The list is based on research into the use of tactics ranging from imprisonment and repressive laws to harassment of journalists and restrictions on Internet access.

Dinh
Dang Dinh, a former Vietnamese schoolteacher and blogger, died on April 3
from cancer of the stomach. Near death, he had been released from his six-year
prison sentence on March 21, and allowed to return home to die in Dak Nong
province in Vietnam's Central Highlands. His crime, to which he had pled not
guilty, had been to blog about corruption and environmental issues. He was found guilty under Article 88-1 (c) of
the Criminal Code for "conducting propaganda against the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam."

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Bangkok,
July 22, 2013--A new decree aimed at regulating Internet-related information and
services in Vietnam represents a significant new danger to online journalists
and bloggers, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. The decree was
signed into law on July 15 and will be implemented on September 1, according to
news reports.

On September 12, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan
Dung issued an administrative order--number 7169--accusing us, Danlambao,
of "publishing information that is false, fabricated, and untruthful to slander
the leadership of the nation, to agitate the people against the Party and the
State, to cause doubts and create bad publicity reducing the people's trust in
the state leadership." The order directed the Ministry of Public Security and
the Ministry of Information Communication and Media to investigate and
discipline any groups or individuals who affiliate with Danlambao.

Vietnamese
officials are stepping up repression of old and new media even as they promote
an image of an open, globalized economy. Intense surveillance and imprisonment
of critical journalists, coupled with increasingly restrictive laws, are choking the flow of information. A
CPJ special report by Shawn W. Crispin